Flight (31 page)

Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey (1988) is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

I have taken the liberty of advancing the decision made about the venue for the World Cup 2006 by about six weeks.

The article which Martagon read in the
Herald Tribune
for 24 June 2000 was ‘Not Just
ANY
Philosophy: An Architecture of Ideas' by Herbert Muschamp.

I am grateful to the following for what they have said or written, privately or publicly, formally or informally:

James Carpenter, Sir Jeremy Dixon, Michael Dobbs-Higginson, Dr Ellis Douek, Hugo Glendinning, Professor Paul Glendinning, Bill and Diane Hodgkinson, Tim Macfarlane, Deborah Singmaster.

The following works have also been relevant to the writing of this novel:

Sophia and Stefan Behling (eds),
Glass
(1999)

Marcus Binney,
Airport Builders
(1999)

Richard Sennett,
The Conscience of the Eye
(1991),
The Corrosion of Character
(1998).

My first and last thanks are to Kevin O'Sullivan, without whom this book would have been neither conceived nor written.

Also by Victoria Glendinning

NON-FICTION

Trollope

Rebecca West: A Life

Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions

Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer

Jonathan Swift

A Suppressed Cry

Hertfordshire

Sons and Mothers
(ed., with Mathew Glendinning)

FICTION

The Grown-Ups

Electricity

About the Author

Victoria Glendinning is the award winning biographer of
Trollope, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West
and
Jonathan Swift.
Her previous novels,
The Grown-Ups
and
Electricity,
were critical and commercial successes. She divides her time between London, Provence and Ireland.

FLIGHT
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First published in Great Britain by Scribner, 2000 an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd A Viacom Company

First U.S. Edition: July 2003

eISBN 9781466873599

First eBook edition: May 2014